Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.